The Moebius Strip

The novel concerns two men who lead opposite but parallel lives, Etienne a sensualist in the south of France, and Matthew a cerebral minister living in New England. Etienne reaches a point of satiation with his life as a voluptuary, and Matthew gradually loses his faith and cannot find any reason for acting ar all. They are both summoned back to Oxford where they first met because of the death of an English girl they shared named Sibyl. Here they are given a second chance to take the path she revealed to them, to heal their different wounds and touch life more directly.